4 Public Housing Lessons the U.S. Could Learn From the Rest of the World

While the U.S. has been losing about 10,000 public housing units a year since 1995, Singapore is building more. (Photo by Terence Ong; via nextcity.org)

Public housing in the United States is associated with failure and misery. The very words conjure up visions of concrete tower blocks, drug-related violence and concentrated poverty. But contrary to popular belief, public housing in the U.S. has not been an utter disaster [...].

Many of public housing’s failures can be traced to the American political and economic context, especially easy to see when compared with the success of similar policies around the world.
— nextcity.org